True, and sufficiently far from iron or steel not to be side-tracked by random magnetic fields. I proved this using Ariadne on a bus, the one thing it couldn't tell me was direction. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <r...@raulgallegos.com> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 10:22 PM Subject: Re: blind square location wrong
Hi, I believe for the compass of the phone to work properly it has to be horizontal. -- Raul A. Gallegos My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. --Rodney Dangerfield Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74 On 7/9/2012 4:35 PM, Mark Furness wrote: > Unless I hold my iPhone 4 horizontally with the home button toward my > stomach and facing upwards, > it tells me locations are behind me, when they are in front, > 3 oclock when they are 9 oclock. > > In short opposite from where they really are. > > I did have the phone in my front pocket wright side up and upside down. > No difference. > my screen is locked into portrait mode.. > What do I need to do, that will allow me to carry my phone in any way > except horizontally? > > Mark > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
